Monday, Feb 14, 2011 at 19:07
Hi Muffin man
We have been across
Lake Poeppel many times, and a few times looking far worse that it did that time. Two dunes before reaching the lake, we met a group of 4 vehicles, and as you do we had a quick chat. I asked about the condition of the crossing, knowing that there was a detour track available.
Weather it was because we were travelling solo and they wanted a bit of fun with us, we will never know, but they said the lake was no problems and to head straight through. When I mentioned the detour, they said not to use it.
Once we were about 500 metres into the crossing I knew that it was the biggest mistake and
well we did make it around another 200 metres and then it was out with the MaxTrax.
Like I said above, I was making slow progress backwards, the length of the actual Maxtrax and would then sink down again. The longest part was trying to grab the actual MaxTrax out of the mud under the car, as they would sink down will over 8" into the mud and that was a job in itself to get them out.
With our rate of recovery, it have taken all the rest of that day, or even into the next, but we would have got out. If we never had them and no one did come along, it would have been a very expensive recovery, costing thousands of dollar.
From past experience, recoveries would cost $1.50 per kilometre both ways from where the recovery vehicle came from, plus $150 per hour from the time they left. So adding all that up you can see why some peoples recoveries are from $4000 and up. So for the price of under $300 for the MaxTrax, they do make the self recover a very cheap piece of insurance, and you them have them for the next recovery......not that you ever want that to happen.
Cheers
Stephen
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